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Help your favorite"public interest" free software project win $10,000

08/21/2008  
Relevance: 5.56
ominations are now open for the Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. The winner could be someone you know, or someone whose work you admire, but don't mull over your recommendation too long -- entries must be submitted by September 30.
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VCs regain interest in open source

03/07/2008  
Relevance: 5.42
Venture capitalists (VC) first discovered open source during the dot-com bubble at the turn of the millennium. When the bubble burst, open source was connected closely enough with its general failure that all but a handful of VCs lost interest. In the last few years, however, investor interest has started to return, due to growing acceptance of open source software and the success of existing open source companies. What now attracts investors to open source companies, VCs say, is the higher probability of innovative ideas and quicker time to market, as well as the ability to develop niche markets that were previously too small to develop profitably.
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Ubuntu chief decries interest rate cut

01/25/2008  
Relevance: 5.40
Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu version of Linux, called Tuesday's interest-rate cut the"most extraordinary failure of economic leadership in recent years."
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Hardy Heron? Hardly

04/25/2008  
Relevance: 5.33
If there appears to be more interest in the release of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) than the average distribution, I think I should take some of the blame. Last month, a piece which I authored about what I perceived to be the significance of the release commanded extraordinary interest. And thereafter I noticed a spate of something in the nature of copycat pieces springing up all over the web - with no attribution at all.
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Selecting Ubuntu as a Linux Server

04/30/2008  
Relevance: 5.14
The interest in the Ubuntu Server is directly related to the interest in the Ubuntu Desktop. How does this impact the deployment and use of the Ubuntu Server?
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This week at LWN: Tracing: no shortage of options

08/07/2008  
Relevance: 4.69
Three weeks ago, LWN looked at the renewed interest in dynamic tracing, with an emphasis on SystemTap. Tracing is a perennial presence on end-user wishlists; it remains a handy tool for companies like Sun Microsystems, which wish to show that their offerings (Solaris, for example) are superior to Linux. It is not surprising that there is a lot of interest in tracing implementations for Linux; the main surprise is that, after all this time, Linux still does not have a top-quality answer to DTrace - though, arguably, Linux had a working tracing mechanism long before DTrace made its appearance.
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10 organizations of interest to FOSS developers

06/05/2008  
Relevance: 4.66
Over the years, I came to appreciate a number of organizations that although not directly linked to free software and open source are of interest for the FOSS community. Pretty much everybody knows the free software foundation, the software freedom law center, the Linux foundation, The GNU project, the open source initiative, Creative Commons or Groklaw. Here is a list of other extremely interesting (mostly US-born) organizations and/or projects.
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PC Manufacturers Finally Embracing Linux, Sort Of

08/19/2007  
Relevance: 4.54
Dell and Lenovo are the first two companies to recently offer pre-installed open source Linux distribution on PCs and notebooks, but I highly doubt they will be the last manufacturers to take the plunge. According to both Dell and Ubuntu, the customer response over Linux products has been"overwhelming." Maybe it is due to Dell being the first to take a chance, or maybe Ubuntu's popularity is translating to better interest in Ubuntu pre-loaded on Dell products. Although Lenovo and Novell SUSE aren't as popular as Dell and Ubuntu, I hope they see the same interest in their product line.
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Peer-to-Patent pilot steers toward change

08/15/2007  
Relevance: 4.46
On June 15, the New York Law School's Institute for Information Law and Policy, in cooperation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), launched the Peer-to-Patent community patent review pilot program. While some sections of the free and open source community show little interest in the program, program leader Beth Noveck of the NYLC is upbeat, thanks to the interest shown by federal agencies including the Department of Commerce and software companies like Red Hat and Microsoft, and the prospect of replicating the program in other countries.
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HP sees Linux desktop nearing critical mass

03/10/2007  
Relevance: 4.44
The good news, according to an HP executive, is that the company sees"the Linux desktop nearing critical mass." The bad news, for would be off-the-shelf Linux desktop buyers, is that it's still not there yet. Doug Small, HP's worldwide director of open source and Linux marketing, explained that while"the number of indicators we look at -- the noise level, the interest in the products on the market, the interest in our forums -- are all tending to heat up for Linux during the last six months or so." However,"It's still not been enough to get a pre-configured Linux desktop or laptop on the price list."
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